Improvement in manure-spreaders



UNITE-D' STATES PATENT OFFICE.

siLAs A. Hnnens, on LANCASTER, onto.

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To all whom it mail concerti:

Be it known that I, SILAs A. HEDGEs, of

Lancaster, Fairfieldcounty', Ohio,f have invented certain new. andusefulImprovements Asaine letters of reference.

Myfimprovements consist .in constructing a cart with two bodies, thefront one of which `is capable of being raised so Aas to discharge Vthe,manure into therean one by olf-- throwing a` shaft, which is lconnectedwithfthe front .end of it by atackle, into gear with the hindaxle, andin providing an inclined endless apron in the rear body, which is alsoactuated by the hind axle, and so arranged with the tail-board that, by'-meansof a lever, it is thrown into geansimulta'neously with the rais--ing of thetail-board. i

Figure 1 represents. the front body, A, as raised. The tail-board B isbroken oii, so as to show the endless apron L. rlherear body,

D, forms a part of -t'he frame of the cart E E,

and the front cart is hinged ,to it atF, and

working in bearings under the cart and parallel with the hind axle` isasha'ft, G, .provided with a pinion on one end and va ratchet-wheel andpawl, lion' the other end, to which is attached they halyard y of -thetackled, one block'l of which tackle is attached to the tie K and theother to the frontend of the front body, so that by throwing said shaftinto gear with thehind axle by means 'ofthe lever J the front end of thebodies .A will be raised by the action of the hind axle, which willcause 'the manure to descend into the rear body, and from thence bedischarged by theendless apron. The-endless apron L forms the bottom ofthe rear body, and- (isprovided with a suitable number of slats, M, withprojecting teeth for taking hold of the manure and discharging ittlrough the opening formed e tail board) it passes by the raising of tover the axle N, which hasits bearings in guides O O, whichslidevertically in dovetailed grooves in the sides of the frame E E, andjointed to the ends of these guides O O are two levers, 'P P, which havetheir fulcrums on the supports Q Q of the tieK, and their short arms.are connected with the tailboard B. sothat by depressing the long armsof said levers P P the axle `N, which is provided with pinions at eachend, will be thrown into gearwith the hind axle of the cart, and at the'same time the tail-board will be raised. The front body is filled withany description of manure, andwhen arrivingon the i'eld where the'manure is 'to be distributed the axle connected with the tackle forraising the front end is thrown into gear, which causes the manure todescend into the v'rear body." When it is suiciently elevated, theaxle'is thrown out of gear again, andthe '-pawi 'and-ratchetH vwillprevent theshawg;

from turning and'retain the body in its elevated position; The rear'body' is thus kept suppliedwith manure. The apron 'is then thrown intogear, which operation at the same time raises the tail-board, and thelmanure is then forced out in a thin sheet through the opening betweenthe tail-board andthe apron.

This construction of cart vdistributes manure thin and evenly overthefield with very" little waste.V Having thus fully described myinvention,

what I claim therein as new, and desire to se- 1. Constructing amanure-cart with two bodies, the front one of which is raised or tiltedfor the discharge of manure into the rear one by the-action of the hindaxle, by

means of the axle G and tackle l, when. thrown into gear by thehand-'lever J', arrangedl and operating in the manner and for thepurpose set forth.

2. The combination o f the. endless apron,

the tilting body, 4and raising the tailboard' simultaneously withthrowing/in gear theend- `less slotted apron, in the manner and for thepurposes fully set forth. -v

In testimony-of the above amendment the aforesaid S. A. HEDGEs hashereunto signed lhis name before two subscribinguwitnesses.

S. A. HEDGES.

Witnesses: V

W. C. Rocnnn, B. CONNELL.

